Officials say a nighttime Russian missile and drone barrage has killed at least 15 people and injured 116 others in Ukraine while they slept in their homes, with the main barrage centering on the capital Kyiv.

Ukraine’s air defence forces destroyed 428 drones and missiles out of 472 launched against Ukraine on the night of 16-17 June. The hits were recorded in 10 locations, and debris fell in 34 locations.

Russian aviation, with a high-explosive air bomb (FAB), destroyed a platoon of the 141st Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, part of which was withdrawn from the village of Komar to the settlement of Voskresenka in the west of the DPR.

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Matthias Schmale, strongly condemned the Russian armed forces' strikes on Kyiv, Odesa, and other Ukrainian cities and urged to stop attacking the civilians.

As mercenaries leave Mali, experts say remaining Kremlin-controlled Africa Corps is more than just ‘Wagner rebranded’.

Punitive units of the Kiev regime have orders to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen who are trying to surrender for the sake of saving their lives.

The number of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine has topped 1 million, military officials in Kyiv said Thursday, describing the huge price that Moscow has paid for its 3-year-old invasion.

A Russian-built SU-24M bomber crashed into Niger River near Gao, Mali, a day after a major Africa Corps–FLA clash. The cause remains unknown.

Vladyslav Solomko, a 29-year-old French language tutor, is having trouble convincing his parents it would be better not to be in their home in Sumy if rapidly-advancing

Against the background of a sharp escalation of tension and a shift in the focus of world attention to Israeli strikes on Iran, the same dynamics remains in the SMO zone. Positive news is coming from all directions,